Collapsible wire carrier



Oct. 15, 1957 P. MICHALSKY COLLAPSIBLE WIRE CARRIER Filed Aug. 10, 1954 IN VENTOR United 2,809,767 Patented Oct. 15, 1957 COLLAPSBLE WIRE CARRIER Peter Michalsky, Garfield, N. 3.

Application August 10, 1954, Serial No. 448,836

1 Claim. (Cl. 220-117) This invention relates to a wire carrier or the like. An object of this invention is the provision of a simple economical wire carrier formed from pieces of wire including longitudinal and transverse wires to form a top frame and a bottom frame, which frames are secured together by links with circular loops at their ends and also links with elongated loops at their ends and the top frame is provided with handle forming links having a circular loop at one end and an elongated loop at the other end; the links making the wire carrier collapsible, and useful to transport bottles, cans or the like.

A feature of this invention is the rectangular peripheral wire of the top frame with its transverse and longitudinal Wires and the rectangular peripheral wire of the bottom frame with more transverse and longitudinal wires than the top frame.

These top bottom frames are held together movably by links. The link with circular loops at both its ends is preferably used on the shorter parallel sides of the rectangular peripheral wire. The link with elongated loops at its ends is used on the longer parallel sides of the rectangular peripheral wire. A pair of links with a circular loop at one end and the elongated loop at the other end together with a link with circular loops at both its ends, form a collapsible movable handle. A further feature is the use of many such carriers in stacking them one on top of the other such as by offsetting a little to one side so that alternate layers of carriers would be in between the other layers.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the bottom frame member of the carrier.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the top frame member of the carrier.

Figure 3 is a view of one of the links used to connect the tops of the poles of the handle and connect the ends of the top and bottom frame members.

Figure 4 is a view of one of the sliding links used be tween the sides of the top and bottom frame members.

Figure 5 is a view of one of the poles of the handle of the carrier.

Figure 6 is a top plan view of the carrier in collapsed condition.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of the carrier in operating condition.

The carrier of Figure 7 is formed of wire parts designated as frames 1 and 2 and links 13, 16 and 19. The top frame 1 is formed of a rectangular peripheral wire 3, transverse wires 4 and longitudinal wire 5 which intersect the rectangular peripheral wire at 7. The intersection of the transverse and longitudinal wires of the top frame is designated as 6. These form the enclosed space for the bottles and cans or the like. The intersections of the wires of the top and bottom frames are held in place preferably by soldering or by electrical welding. The bottom frame 2 is formed of a rectangular peripheral wire 8 and more transverse wires 9 and more longitudinal wires 16 than has the top frame 1. The intersection of the transverse and longitudinal wires of the bottom frame is designated as 11. The intersection of the bottom frame longitudinal and transverse wires with the rectangular peripheral wire 8 is referenced 12. The bottles, cans and the like rest upon the intersections of the longitudinal and trans verse wires of the bottom frame. A link 13 with circular loops l4 and 15 at its ends is between each end of the top and bottom frames movably mounted with the loops 14 movably encircling the ends of the top frame 1 while the loops l5 movably encircle the ends of the bottom frame 2. .Link 13 is used at least in pairs on the ends of said frames and is connected to both the parallel ends of the rectangular peripheral wires holding same together movably by encircling such end portions. Link 16 with the elongated loops l7 and 13 at its ends has its loop 1'7 movably mounted encircling the side of the top frame 1 while its loop 18 is movably mounted encircling the side of the bottom frame 2. Link 16 is used at least in pairs on the sides of said frames and is connected to both the parallel sides of the rectangular peripheral wires holding same together movably by loosely encircling such side portions.

The link 19 has a circular loop at one end and an elongated loop 21 at the other end. The elongated loop 21 of link 1? is pivotally mounted to encircle the left transverse wire of the top frame It. The elongated loop 21 of a second link 19 is pivotally mounted to encircle the right transverse wire of the top frame 1. The loops 21 of the links 19 are disposed on opposite sides of the longitudinal wire 5 of the top frame 1. An additional link 23 is mounted between the said links 19 with its circular loop 14 encircling loop 24 of one of the links 19, and its circular loop 15 encircling loop 2% of the second link 19 forming a carrying handle.

I claim:

A wire carrier consisting of fiat rectangular top and bottom wire frames movably secured together by links and a carrying handle movably secured to the said top frame, the top frame being formed of a rectangular peripheral wire with transverse and longitudinal wires extending between and rigidly connected to the opposed sides and ends respectively of said rectangular peripheral wire and the bottom frame being formed of a rectangular peripheral wire with more transverse and longitudinal wires extending between and rigidly connected to the opposed sides and ends respectively of said bottom rectangular peripheral wire than has the top peripheral frame, some of the links which secure the said frames together having circular loops at both ends and others of said links having elongated loops at both ends, the links with circular loops at their ends having their loops movably encircling on y the shorter parallel sides of the top and bottom rectangular peripheral wires and the links with elongated loops at their ends having their loops movably encircling only the longer parallel sides of the top and bottom peripheral wires, said handle being formed from a pair of links each with a circular loop at one end and an elongated loop at the other end and a link having circular loops at both ends, the elongated loop of one of said pair of links being pivotally moun ed to encircle one of said transverse wires of the top frame, the elongated loop of the other of said pair of links being pivotally mounted to encircle another of the transverse wires of the top frame, said encircling elongated loops of said handle forming links being disposed on opposed sides of the longitudinal wire of the top frame, and the circular loops of the handle forming link having circular loops at both ends pivotally connecting the circular loops of said last named pair of links.

(References on following page) References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Miller Nov. 3, 1891 Barrett Oct. 18, 1910 Andrews Sept. 17, 1918 Hildreth Sept. 30, 1919 Hatch Nov. 3, 1925 Petyak June 8, 1948 Hall et a1 May 23, 1950 Thompson 2- May 20. 1952 

